Safety ring-holder.



K. L. TOELCKE.

SAFETY RING HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 22, 1914.

Patented June 8, 1915.

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' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1915.

Application filed September 8, 1914. Serial No; 860,558.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL L. TOELCKE,'EL citizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Safety Ring-Holders,

It IS annoying and vexatious to persons,-

and particularly to ladies,.to find, when it becomes necessary or desirable to remove their finger rings to wash the hands or for other reasons, that there is no convenient and safe place to deposit the rings while they are thus temporarily out of use. The common expedient is to place them on the wash stand, on the faucet, chair, window sill or other place which -first suggests itself. Very often when one has laid down the rings for the moment he neglects to pick them up again before leaving the place. Not infrequently in such a case the temporary resting place is not easily recalled, and considerable worry and nervousness is experienced until the rings are recovered. It has often happened that rings, while thus neglected, have been accidentally brushed aside to some obscure or inaccessible place, carried away in refuse, picked up as a find, or stolen.

It is an object of the present invention to obviate the taking of such needless risks of loss.

The invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a front view of the pin or brooch, and shows the plate in engagement with the key slot. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the pin and shows the operation of the headed stud on the plate in holding said plate in engagement in the slot. Figs. 3, 4. and 5 are sections taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 and show the different embodiments of the springelocking means employed.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, it will be seen that I have provided a pin, shield or brooch 1, designed to be fastened to the garment by means of the ordinary hinged pin 2 operating in connection with the retainer 3. The pin or brooch itself may well be so elaborated upon as to constitute an elegant article of adornment or jewelry. Any suitable material anddesign or configuration for the pin may be used, but for the purpose of demonstration and description of my invention 1 have chosen aluminum or similar white metal, and the design illustrated in the drawing herein. The pin is centrally provided with a key hole slot at 4 to receive and retain the headed stud 5 on the plate 6. The late is carried by the free end of the chain the other end of the chain being permanently attached to the pin at 8. The diameter of the head 12 of the stud 5 which projects perpendicularly from one side of the plate 6 is less than that of the enlarged portion 9 of the slot 4. It is greater, however, than the width of the channel 11 of said slot. In the operation of my novel device the plate 6 is placed in position at the front of the brooch so that the stud 5 is in alinement with the top 9 of the slot. The stud is then inserted and drawn to the bottom of the channel 11 and is there held against lateral displacement by the engagement of the head 12 of the stud .5 against the walls of said channel.

To avoid an accidental escape of the stud from the top 9 of the slot, I have positioned on the back of the brooch, and near the bottom thereof, a curved leaf spring 13 which is normally in contact with the rear face of the brooch at 14: (Fig. 3). The spring is raised to allow of the free passage of the head 12 and of the stud 5 to the bottom of the channel. On the return of the spring to normal position it will be readily seen that its contact at 1% creates an obstruction to the upward travel of the stud and that the.

spring must again be lifted before the stud can be withdrawn from the slot.

Another embodiment of leaf spring looking device is shown in Fig. 4. The spring in this instance is attached to the rear of the brooch at 15 and extends downwardly to a point just below and covering portion 9 of the slot 4, and must be raised to admit of the insertion and extraction of the stud into and from the slot.

A still further embodiment of spring actuated locking mechanism is shown in Fig. 5 and comprises the cylinder 16 attached at the rear of the brooch. This cylinder contains the coiled expansion spring 17 which carries the follower 18. The follower is bent so that a portion 19 of the same is perpendicular to the face of the brooch and enters into and extends through the opening 9 of the slot. When the spring is in normal position the follower rests at the top of the channel 11 andclocks the'stud 5 inthe channel until contraction of the spring 17 withdraws the follower to a point where it will not lie in the path of the stud.

Finger rings and the like can thus be readily and securely held and locked by being slipped over the plate-6 and onto the chain 5 when the same arefree from engagement in the slot 12, and then looking said plate in said slot the manner above described.

- It will be apparent to those skilled in the 1 art that many changes could bemade in the detail construction of the various parts which I have described'without departing a from the spirit or scope of my invention or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new and desired tobesecured ried by the free end of said suspending member and adapted to be inserted and retained in the slot of said member, and means for preventing accidental displacement 'of the .studfromthe slot. V I v 2. A safety ring holder comprising a memher having a key hole slot, a flexible suspending member attached permanently at I one end to said slotted member andcarrying at its free end a headed stud adapted to be detachably locked in said key hole slot, and

spring means for releasably holding said stud in said slot.

3. A safety ring holder comprising a key hole slotted member to which is permanently attached one end of a flexible ring-suspend ing member, a plate carried by the other end of said flexible member, having a headed V stud adapted to be inserted in said key hole slot; and means mounted on said slotted member for releasab'ly holding said stud in said slot.

4. The combination with a plate having a pin at its upper end and a keyhole slot at its lower end; of a flexible member having one end connected, to the lower extremity of the plate, a stud connected to the other end of said flexible member and comprising a body portion, a neck extending from said body portion and adapted to engage the lower end of said keyhole slot, said neck be 7 ing elongated in cross-section to prevent turning in the slot, a head on said neck adapted to pass through thelarger end-of the keyholeslot, said head being of dimensions sufiicient to prevent movement through the lower end of the keyhole slot, and a spring carried by said plate and arranged to yieldably hold the stud in the lower end of said keyhole slot. v i

- KARL L. TOELCKE.

Witnesses:

T. D. BUTLER, FRANKLIN M. WAR EN; 

